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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

October 25th

Friedrich Martin Palitzsch (25-10-1889 - 02-03-1932) German composer

Friedrich Palitzsch was a founding theoretician of the German Logical school. He created, explored and promoted the Dresden theme: A good defence to a threat is eliminated (usually by means of a foreplan) and a bad defence by a different piece (not previously available) is introduced.
In 1917 he wrote "Die Ablenkung, das Element der indirekten Kombination" which exposed the concepts of the neo-German school.

Roméo Bédoni is a prolific composer who enjoys fairy chess and frequently invents new forms of fairy conditions or pieces. He nevertheless composed orthodox direct mate problems.
In 1997 he published "Problèmes d'Echecs en tous genres" which contains 201 problems and was reviewed by Christian Poisson on his website. A sample of his problems are quoted in this book review.